DOI issue:
Nr. 174 (August, 1911)
DOI article:Frantz, Henri: The Salon of the Société des Aristes Français
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43447#0153
The Salon of the Artistes Francois
could not but be struck in the present instance
with the confused effect of M. Cormon’s ensemble.
The artist has attempted to embrace in a single
composition all the varied and diverse episodes in
history, with the result that when you have looked
at these paintings no one form, no one vision, no
one thought remains in your mind.
M. Fouqueray, who belongs to the Romantic
school, is a colourist of great talent. His Bataille
navale evinced the most charming and scholarly
qualities.
Among the landscapes, certain good pictures
remain in the memory. First of all the Carcassonne,
by M. Guillemet. The composition of this work is
not less happy than its tonality; the water in the
foreground is painted with admirable transparency.
M. Eugene Chigot excels in the painting of
water, and one finds in his work fine qualities of
colouring coupled with a profound comprehension
of nature. His Chateau a bautomne is a delightful
work, in which the artist has found beautiful con-
trasts between the golden tints of the autumn
leaves and iridescent effect of the reflections of the
banks and of the fagade of the chateau in the water
in the foreground of the picture.
M. Lailhaca is as yet an unknown artist and
one who cannot be said to have “ arrived ” ; never-
theless his landscape in Salle i was one of the best
pieces in the exhibition. The artist has painted a
view of some cliffs rising out of a calm sea, and out
of these simple—even banal—components he has
evolved a picture noble in form and in composition.
M. Harpignies, the doyen not only of landscape
but of painting in general in France, succeeded in
astonishing us yet once more; his two landscapes
bore the unmistakable imprint of the fine and
robust talent of this astounding nonagenarian. I
would also mention L’Effet de soir by M. Demont,
a painter of warm and powerful harmonies; the snow
landscape of Holland by M. Gorter, an excellent
Netherlands artist; and the brilliant CoucherdeSoleil
by Mr. Hughes-Stanton. One noticed also the fine
“FOIRE DANS LE BERRl
98
BY F. MAILLAUD
could not but be struck in the present instance
with the confused effect of M. Cormon’s ensemble.
The artist has attempted to embrace in a single
composition all the varied and diverse episodes in
history, with the result that when you have looked
at these paintings no one form, no one vision, no
one thought remains in your mind.
M. Fouqueray, who belongs to the Romantic
school, is a colourist of great talent. His Bataille
navale evinced the most charming and scholarly
qualities.
Among the landscapes, certain good pictures
remain in the memory. First of all the Carcassonne,
by M. Guillemet. The composition of this work is
not less happy than its tonality; the water in the
foreground is painted with admirable transparency.
M. Eugene Chigot excels in the painting of
water, and one finds in his work fine qualities of
colouring coupled with a profound comprehension
of nature. His Chateau a bautomne is a delightful
work, in which the artist has found beautiful con-
trasts between the golden tints of the autumn
leaves and iridescent effect of the reflections of the
banks and of the fagade of the chateau in the water
in the foreground of the picture.
M. Lailhaca is as yet an unknown artist and
one who cannot be said to have “ arrived ” ; never-
theless his landscape in Salle i was one of the best
pieces in the exhibition. The artist has painted a
view of some cliffs rising out of a calm sea, and out
of these simple—even banal—components he has
evolved a picture noble in form and in composition.
M. Harpignies, the doyen not only of landscape
but of painting in general in France, succeeded in
astonishing us yet once more; his two landscapes
bore the unmistakable imprint of the fine and
robust talent of this astounding nonagenarian. I
would also mention L’Effet de soir by M. Demont,
a painter of warm and powerful harmonies; the snow
landscape of Holland by M. Gorter, an excellent
Netherlands artist; and the brilliant CoucherdeSoleil
by Mr. Hughes-Stanton. One noticed also the fine
“FOIRE DANS LE BERRl
98
BY F. MAILLAUD